Although her in-ring future is unsure, Riley Shepard has a transparent imaginative and prescient of what she’d like obtain subsequent.
Riley Shepard final wrestled in July 2022. Since then, “The Gladiator of The Geeks” has sadly confronted some well being considerations, particularly Relapsing-Remitting A number of Sclerosis and a lately re-torn ACL. Regardless of the setbacks, Shepard is targeted on using the extra day without work to recenter herself each mentally and bodily. From there, Shepard might or might not embrace an in-ring return.
Throughout a current interview with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay, Shepard was requested about her subsequent objectives in skilled wrestling in a state of affairs the place well being was not a priority.
“Ring of Honor has all the time been the purpose for me,” Shepard mentioned. “I feel that’s partly as a result of I got here up by way of Monster Manufacturing facility and now the Worldwide Dojo. All of them have such huge ties to Ring of Honor, so I’ve been round that. I bought to debut for Ring of Honor inside my first yr, so for me, it was simply sort of a kind of full circles. I wished that so badly. That’s one thing that may all the time be a purpose for me.
“Whether or not it’s attainable, we’ll see. Whether or not the purpose actually simply is to step again within the ring yet another time, or for yet another yr, that could be it. However in an ideal world, it might be Ring of Honor, it might be Japan, it might be TNA. These are these are actually the most important objectives that I’ve all the time wished, for positive.”
“The Gladiator of The Geeks” Riley Shepard Desires “The Submission Sniper” Jordan Blade
Along with competing for Ring of Honor and TNA Wrestling, Shepard can also be eager on lastly dealing with her finest good friend in a singles match — that being “The Submission Sniper” Jordan Blade. Shepard and Blade beforehand met in tag crew motion in February 2022. As of now, although, they’ve but to fulfill one-on-one.
“I nonetheless can’t imagine this hasn’t occurred. My finest good friend out and in of the ring is Jordan Blade. I really like her to demise. She actually is my finest good friend on the earth. Weirdly, we’ve got by no means had a singles battle ever,” Shepard mentioned.
“We’ve had a tag crew battle, which I’m so grateful to having that as a result of then I bought to wrestle with my tag crew associate, Kennedi [Copeland], and it simply grew to become a factor. Fortunately, we bought to be awkward collectively. So I really like that we bought that match, however I’ve by no means, ever had a singles match with Jordan Blade. She is unquestionably on there. I do know she’s simply ready for that point. She’s like proper there and I can’t wait to see it and have fun that along with her when that occurs.”
